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      05-21-2016, 07:47 PM   #17
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it is possible but hard to tell for me without actually seeing the vehicle.

a good note to everyone tho is if your vehicle is miss firing to have it inspected as soon as possible. The electronics on our cars and almost any newer vehicle these days are very fragile.
I have seen a couple times now where a prolonged a bad ignition coil has caused internal damage to the DME and required a new DME followed by programming.

if you have a bad or faulty ignition coil you will notice right away because the vehicle will be miss firing constantly.

the only way to verify a coil is bad besides hooking up a oscilloscope is identify what cylinder is miss firing and without Removing the spark plug swap that cylinders ignition coil to a known good cylinder... clear faults do a key cycle then restart the engine till the check engine light comes on or vehicle begins to miss fire for a little bit. Recheck fault codes and see if the miss fire followed the ignition coil to the other cylinder
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